Why failure is the new face of success

It may have been the military that invaded but, with Iraq completely dismantled, the reconstruction was to be the preserve of US corporations ... Thus was born 'disaster capitalism', where oil companies profit from a broken country and private security firms grow rich on political chaos, says Naomi Klein in this final extract from her new book

A Burger King in al-Asad air base, 100 miles west of Baghdad. Photograph: Charles J Hanley/AP